A SUGGESTED COUNSELING PROGRAM ACCORDING TO THE REALITY COUNSELING THEORY TO DEVELOP MARITAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS AMONG MARRIED UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The current research aims to identify marital communication skills among married university students and build a guiding program (proposed) to develop marital communication skills among married university students . The sample of the study amounted to (238) female students from the two majors (scientific and human) from the female students of Al-Qadisiyah University for the morning study. The sample was chosen in a stratified random way. To achieve the goal of the study, the scale of marital communication skills was adopted for (Awadeh, 2019), and the scale in its final form consisted of (42) paragraphs The psychometric properties of the scale were verified and its validity and reliability extracted. The researcher applied the scale on a sample of female students chosen in a random stratified manner consisting of (238) students. The second tool is building the counseling program (proposed) according to the theory of realistic treatment (Glaser), and the researcher used the appropriate statistical methods For the first objective, the virtual validity of the counseling program was extracted, and the results showed that married university students have marital communication skills less than the arithmetic mean, and the researcher presented a set of recommendations and suggestions .